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This year Dayton graduates and alumni were awarded $121,811 through local scholarship benefactors. In addition, Dayton High School Class of 2021 graduates received $121,312 from colleges and universities they will be attending in the fall for a total of $243,123 in scholarship awards.
Kaylene Slack: Boise Bible College Camp Award, $2,000; Academic Achievement-Eastern Oregon University, $3,000; Montana State University Academic Achievement Award $36,000. Total: $41,000.
Jordyn Helm: Dayton Volunteer Firefighters Association, $500; Elk Drug, $500; Gailord & Jean Nelson, $600; Grace Scribner $500; Brigham Young University Grant $3,312. Total: $5,412. Helm also will be receiving her AA from WWCC Saturday.
Sadie Seney: AgLink Inc. $750; Archer Ranch $500; B.W. Casseday/Dayton Chemicals Inc. $500; Columbia County Ag Improvement $500; Columbia County Farm Bureau/Monte Leighty & Wally Robins $800; Dayton High School Booster Club $500; Dayton/Columbia County Fund $3,000; Floyd & Eugenia Norgaard $2,000; Frances R. Spoonemore Memorial $750; Guy & Nyda Prater, $2,500; Homestead $1,250; Jean Kibler Agriculture $650; John Hinchliffe/Pheasants Forever $500; John Israel $500; Kay Preston-Cochran Memorial $200; Kiwanis Club $500; Marv Evers $125; Owen & Jan Agenbroad Assistantships $250; Walter Selby/Whetstone $1,000; Ward & Vera Hoskins Memorial $300; PEO STAR $2,500; WSU Regents $4,000 a year for four year, $16,000. Total: $35,575.
Cassidy Laughery: Dayton High School Booster Club $500; Dayton Lions Club Academic $500; Dayton/Columbia County Fund $3,000; Emory Clapp Memorial 4-H $300; Floyd & Eugenia Norgaard $850; Gailord & Jean Nelson $650; Guy & Nyda Prater $500; Homestead $1,250; John Israel $500; Kiwanis Club $500; Merwin Alethea Neace & Family Memorial $475; Owen & Jan Agenbroad Assistantships $250; Vernon Marll Charitable Trust, $2,000; Walla Walla Elks Lodge Most Valuable Student $500; Ward & Vera Hoskins Memorial $350; WSU Distinguished University Achievement Award, $4,000. Total: $16,125.
Mackena Culley: Brandon Barton Memorial, $300; Dayton High School Alumni Association $500; Dayton High School Booster Club $500; Dayton/Columbia County Fund $4,000; Don & Nancy Fix $8,000; Floyd & Eugenia Norgaard $1,000; Gailord & Jean Nelson $650; Guy & Nyda Prater $2,000; John Israel $500; Kiwanis Club $500; Merwin Alethea Neace & Family Memorial $475; Owen & Jan Agenbroad Assistantships $250; Ward & Vera Hoskins Memorial $750; Montana State University/Western Undergraduate Exchange $56,000. Total: $75,425.
Lindsey Newhouse: Dayton/Columbia County Fund $3,000; Guy & Nyda Prater $750; Ward & Vera Hoskins Memorial $300; WWCC Rasty E. and Nona F. Ketcherside, $1,500. Total: $5,550. Lindsey will also be receiving an AA from WWCC.
Morgan Boggs: American Association of University Women, $300; Dayton/Columbia County Fund $3,000; Guy & Nyda Prater $500; John Isreal $500; Kiwanis Club $1,000; WSU Distinguished University Achievement Award $4,000. Total: $9,300.
Rose Burris Ramirez: PEO Citizenship Award, $300; WWCC Rasty E. and Nona F. Ketcherside, $1,500; Cultivating Potential/Innovia Foundation: Two years' tuition at WWCC. Total: $1,800.
Anna Fortier: Dayton High School Alumni Association $500; Dayton High School Booster Club $500; Dayton/Columbia County Fund $3,000; Emory Clapp Memorial 4-H $400; Floyd & Eugenia Norgaard $850; Gailord & Jean Nelson $700; Guy & Nyda Prater $1,500; John Hinchliffe/Pheasants Forever $500; John Israel $500; Kiwanis Club $1,000; Owen & Jan Agenbroad Assistantships $250; Ward & Vera Hoskins Memorial $300. Total: $10,000. Anna will also be receiving an AA degree from WWCC.
Glen Smith: Dayton/Columbia County Fund $2,000; Floyd & Eugenia Norgaard $1,000; Guy & Nyda Prater, $250. Total: $3,250.
Alexxys Draper: Charles Broughton Jr. & Darlene Broughton $3,000.
Elijah Talbott:
Cristobal Escobar: Anderson Perry & Associates $1,000; Ben & Sue Dickinson Memorial $1,000; John Isreal $500; Marv Evers $125; PEO Citizenship Award $300. Total: $2,925.
Drake Campbell: WWCC Rasty E. & Nona F. Ketcherside $1,500.
Ashton Phinney: Dayton Lions Club Vocational $500; Ken & Shirley Golliher $500; Vernon Marll Charitable Trust $2,000; Washington State Elks Association Vocational $2,500; Walla Walla Elks Lodge Vocational $500; WWCC Rasty E. and Nona F. Ketcherside, $1,500. Total $7,500.
Samantha Davis: Emory Clapp Memorial 4-H $250; WWCC Rasty E. and Nona F. Ketcherside, $1,500. Total: $1,750.